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disk usage

  1. hyperbolic

    System Files Disk Usage on iPhone 8 Plus, 256 GB

    NOTE: I’ve attached relevant screenshots for all of the issues I describe below. If anyone else out there owns a 256 GB iPhone 8 Plus (preferably Product Red), and you have installed iOS 15.5.x or 15.6.x (especially today’s release of 15.6.1), may you PLEASE respond with the amount of disk...
  2. zedsdeadbaby

    360 GB of Ghost Data/Unrecovered Space?

    Hey everyone... I'm seeing some weird storage issues on a new MacBook Pro I bought in September. I deleted 100+ GBs of data last week. Checked space the next day and noticed the numbers didn't seem right... So, I decided to before/after screenshot what Disk Utility was reporting as free space...
  3. T

    kernel_task process disk usage is too high?!!

    Hi all, I've recently realized that the kernel_task process (I don't know what it is) is having huge numbers in disk usage, over 10 gigs of bytes written! The question is: What is this? Is that bad? And how to fix? Thank you,